The World Bank in War and Post-War Reconstruction. World Bank Post-Conflict Unit 1997Collier's Economics of Civil War, Crime and Violence, 1999World Bank, Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy, 2003.Paul Collier and Nicholas Sambanis (eds), Understanding Civil War, The World Bank, 2005 (2 volumes)..

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3. Collier-Hoeffler Model for Civil War Onset
Not political social grievance per se leads to civil war, but, rather, for given levels of grievance, it is the opportunity to organize and finance a rebellion that determines if a civil war will occur or not. The determinants of such opportunity are mainly economic [greed].

5. Main Arguments
The WB’s interest and specialization in the economics of war and post-war reconstruction –and indeed the interest in general by aid practitioners—closely relate to the general demise of ‘development’ –both as a sub-disciplinary study and a policy apparatus—since the 1990s.
The WB’s interest in post-war reconstruction can be seen as an attempt at revival or reform of ‘development’ and the external policy interventions prompted by it.
The WB leaves intact the very flaws of ‘development’ that underlie this notion’s intellectual bankruptcy and lack of credibility as an effective policy tool: Development is reinvented – not reconsidered.

6. Moral and Strategic Imperatives
“..the international community has the moral right and the practical duty to intervene to prevent and shorten conflicts.”
- Breaking the Conflict Trap…

7. The CH-model on Globalization & Civil War
Countries at higher risk of civil war are the least globalized as measured in terms of these countries’ openness to foreign trade and FDI.
As globalization –again measured in terms of foreign trade and FDI—is viewed as fostering economic growth, a strong correlation between economic growth and political stability rules that, indirectly, globalization counters civil wars.
It follows that policy should encourage globalization as preventive and a remedy to civil war.

11. Development, Aid & Conflict Aid can reinforce, exacerbate and prolong conflict because when international assistance is given in the context of a violent conflict, it becomes a part of that context and thus also of the conflict. (Anderson, Do No Harm. How Aid Can Support Peace –or War, 1999)
‘Development’ aid industry in pre-1994 Rwanda contributed to violence by bolstering patterns of exclusion (material and racism, oppression) and state actors benefiting from them without for a single moment reconsidering its own role to this effect. (Peter Uvin, Aiding Violence: the Development Enterprise in Rwanda, 2000)
IFI’s own policies may have contributed to civil wars: e.g. Sierra Leone, Serbia and Rwanda: SAP and macro-economic stability policies, privatization & fiscal austerity, education and health sector reform, financial shock 1998 Asian Crisis.
Capitalist development: “creative destruction” & greed